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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr. on intelligence

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein on intelligence

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill on intelligence

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan on intelligence

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison on intelligence

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken on intelligence

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli on intelligence

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe on intelligence

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
John F. Kennedy on intelligence

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Lao Tzu on intelligence

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Niccolo Machiavelli on intelligence

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs on intelligence

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
Wayne Dyer on intelligence

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David Thoreau on intelligence

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard Shaw on intelligence

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus on intelligence

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.
Malcolm X on intelligence

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
e. e. cummings on intelligence

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant on intelligence

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H. L. Mencken on intelligence